Blood brothers.
An opportunity not to be missed, two quite different but visually similar Willowbrook bodied saloons positioned side by side in Rowsley station yard.
On the left is ex Burton Corporation single deck Fleetline MFA 703G and on the right, ex Bournemouth Roadliner KRU 55F. The Fleetline, far more commonly used as a double deck chassis and usually with Gardner engine was a reliable and dependable plodder, the Roadliner sadly was neither in original Cummins powered form. Several operators of the latter attempted to improve matters and retro fitted Perkins V8s to their SRC6 chassis (as with 55F) and substantially improved matters. However, Daimler, in the light of all the odds and even after making the Perkins unit their standard, had to eventually concede defeat and began to offer a further stretched Fleetline chassis to take account of customers requiring a 36ft (11m) chassis.
Blood brothers.
An opportunity not to be missed, two quite different but visually similar Willowbrook bodied saloons positioned side by side in Rowsley station yard.
On the left is ex Burton Corporation single deck Fleetline MFA 703G and on the right, ex Bournemouth Roadliner KRU 55F. The Fleetline, far more commonly used as a double deck chassis and usually with Gardner engine was a reliable and dependable plodder, the Roadliner sadly was neither in original Cummins powered form. Several operators of the latter attempted to improve matters and retro fitted Perkins V8s to their SRC6 chassis (as with 55F) and substantially improved matters. However, Daimler, in the light of all the odds and even after making the Perkins unit their standard, had to eventually concede defeat and began to offer a further stretched Fleetline chassis to take account of customers requiring a 36ft (11m) chassis.